Virtue Quotes
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It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.
Quote by -Dalai Lama
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
Quote by -Aristotle
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Quote by -Buddha
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Quote by -Buddha
“Alone of all creeds, Christianity has added courage to the virtues of the Creator. For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Charity means pardoning the unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends : have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.”
Quote by -George Santayana
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue—but really, it’s a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect.
Quote by -Tim Firris
“Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.”
Quote by -Isabel Allende
"There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk."
Quote by -Charles Baudelaire
"The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue."
Quote by -Oliver Goldsmith
"The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel"
Quote by -Oliver Goldsmith
"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."
Quote by -Thomas Paine
“If swindling pays, then it will not stop. [...] you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils incident to society in every shape? Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“While property continues to be pretty equally divided, and a considerable share of information pervades the community; the tendency of the people's suffrages, will be to elevate merit even from obscurity. As riches increase and accumulate in few hands; as luxury prevails in society; virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might even be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
Quote by -Yukio Mishima
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
Quote by -Xenophon
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Quote by -Walter Bagehot
Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.
Quote by -William Godwin
Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.
Quote by -Thomas Aquinas
I really believe that all of us, as Americans... we all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
Quote by -John Lewis
If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?
Quote by -Jordan Peterson